TristanBridges.bsky.social
@tristanbridges.bsky.social
Sociologist @ UC Santa Barbara. Co-editor of Men and Masculinities (Sage journal) and Exploring Masculinities (Oxford UP). he/him
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Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
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Publication alert!
If you are interested in gender & environmental issues you should know that we have just published a Special Issue on "planetary masculinities" edited by Kadri Aavik, Jeff Hearn, Martin Hultman & Tamara Shefer. Don't be a stranger and visit us:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you are interested in gender & environmental issues you should know that we have just published a Special Issue on "planetary masculinities" edited by Kadri Aavik, Jeff Hearn, Martin Hultman & Tamara Shefer. Don't be a stranger and visit us:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene: ecological/social/economic/political relations, processes and consequences
Published in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Publication alert!
If you are interested in gender & environmental issues you should know that we have just published a Special Issue on "planetary masculinities" edited by Kadri Aavik, Jeff Hearn, Martin Hultman & Tamara Shefer. Don't be a stranger and visit us:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you are interested in gender & environmental issues you should know that we have just published a Special Issue on "planetary masculinities" edited by Kadri Aavik, Jeff Hearn, Martin Hultman & Tamara Shefer. Don't be a stranger and visit us:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
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So interesting!!!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So interesting!!!
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This is a fascinating rabbit hole.
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is a fascinating rabbit hole.
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Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!
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Fascinating!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Fascinating!
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My theory for why white Republican Texans are coming up with k-substituted boy names like 'Kooper, Kase, Kolter, Kolson, Kodi'.
They're said the same as their C equivalent (Cooper, Case, Coulter, etc.), but K signals "hardness", because K has no soft voicing equivalent.
They want masculine boys.
They're said the same as their C equivalent (Cooper, Case, Coulter, etc.), but K signals "hardness", because K has no soft voicing equivalent.
They want masculine boys.
Then, I mapped them to see where these names are actually used. Here, you'll note that D names are more common (note the scales of the two maps), but R names show greater geographic spread. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/p...
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My theory for why white Republican Texans are coming up with k-substituted boy names like 'Kooper, Kase, Kolter, Kolson, Kodi'.
They're said the same as their C equivalent (Cooper, Case, Coulter, etc.), but K signals "hardness", because K has no soft voicing equivalent.
They want masculine boys.
They're said the same as their C equivalent (Cooper, Case, Coulter, etc.), but K signals "hardness", because K has no soft voicing equivalent.
They want masculine boys.
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Interesting thread! My biggest surprise is seeing K/Cohen for baby boys.
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Interesting thread! My biggest surprise is seeing K/Cohen for baby boys.
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This whole thread is a wild ride. Get a cup of coffee and enjoy!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This whole thread is a wild ride. Get a cup of coffee and enjoy!
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
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#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...
contexts.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...
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Come join me @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social new BRES Program (hiring 2 senior profs) - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Come join me @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social new BRES Program (hiring 2 senior profs) - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
#ASA2025
#ASA2025
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just got this in the mail yesterday, looking forward to reading it
Fatima Suàrez’s book is officially out with @nyupress.bsky.social. It is an amazing project and evidence of how amazing our intellectual community is at UCSB. Congrats Fatima!!!
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
just got this in the mail yesterday, looking forward to reading it
Fatima Suàrez’s book is officially out with @nyupress.bsky.social. It is an amazing project and evidence of how amazing our intellectual community is at UCSB. Congrats Fatima!!!
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fatima Suàrez’s book is officially out with @nyupress.bsky.social. It is an amazing project and evidence of how amazing our intellectual community is at UCSB. Congrats Fatima!!!
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
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Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Gender: In A World Perspective
Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...
www.politybooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Gender: In A World Perspective
Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...
www.politybooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School
Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School For PhDs in Social Sciences, and specifically sociology* Each question is about 1 paragraph response 3-4 sentences. This should be abo...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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What does “lesbian” do — as identity, politics, analytic — in the 21st century? Signs’ fall issue, “Lesbian Studies, Now,” stages the debates shaping feminism’s past, present, and future. Read it here (sub. req’d): www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What does “lesbian” do — as identity, politics, analytic — in the 21st century? Signs’ fall issue, “Lesbian Studies, Now,” stages the debates shaping feminism’s past, present, and future. Read it here (sub. req’d): www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
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This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
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This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.
Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?
A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.
www.latimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.
The first of our colloquium series this year. Standing room only for @victorerikray.bsky.social!!!! An incredible talk by a scholar I have long admired. So wonderful to see him speak now of all moments.
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The first of our colloquium series this year. Standing room only for @victorerikray.bsky.social!!!! An incredible talk by a scholar I have long admired. So wonderful to see him speak now of all moments.
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Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Trans Lives
Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups ...
www.politybooks.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...